Andrew Vander Meersch, Stockley's chief executive, has already persuaded 10% of the park's workers to use buses and is ready to spend a couple of million helping integrate a new station on the nearby Heathrow Express line.

As current Stockley Park chief executive Andrew Vander Meersch point out: 'It was an incredible location waiting to be discovered.'

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Lettings soared in the boom to £30 and are around £26 today. 'We have always been around £2 a sq ft ahead of surrounding centres and ridden the recession without major cuts,' says Andrew Vander Meersch, Stockley chief executive.